David Koepp

Indeed it was.

A very dark film about invasion and annihilation and genocide.

Well, my sense of the world is obviously...

you know, already on film with Close Encounters.

Okay.

A benign, you know, non-human civilization coming here.

And E.T.

is as benign as you could possibly imagine any entity could be.

And I believe that what's been going on is not...

something that we should fear.

It's something that we should be very open to.

Yeah, if I hadn't made War of the Worlds, and that was not in my filmography, I would say, well, I've been trying to train us, too, between three movies, but War of the Worlds kind of makes me a hypocrite.

It totally undoes your line.

It undoes my good intentions, and yet I do have good intentions, and I am optimistic that whatever is interacting with us, whatever is here, out there, under the water, wherever, and whoever knows the truth knows that this is not something that we need to flee in panic.

There's going to be a lot of ontological shock if this ever gets announced, and the stuff that the government or the Pentagon has been releasing in drips and drabs

is kind of hard to see what it is.

But what they're releasing is not going to cause any social dislocation because it's not enough.

And nobody's coming out and making that big public announcement.

They're here.

They've been here.